the Troops you asked for, but I hear you have per. fectly fucceeded at Enniscorthy with thofe you had. Mr. Roche who commands the Rebels is encamped, I hear, about Five Miles off. He has fent to Lord Kingsborough to furrender upon Terms. Your Prefence fpeedily is upon every Account extremely neceffary.

Major-General Johnson.

I am, &c.

JOHN MOORE.

P. S. It is difficult to judge of the Numbers of Rebels, they appear in fuch Crowds and fo little Order. Information states those we beat to have been between 5 and 6000.

PROPOSALS of the REBELS.

June 21, 1798 THAT Captain M'Manus fhall proceed from Wexford towards Oulart, accompanied by Mr. E. Hay, appointed by the Inhabitants of all Religious Perfuafions, to inform the Officer command. ing the King's Troops that they are ready to deliver up the Town of Wexford without Oppofition, lay down their Arms, and return to their Allegi ance, provided that their Perfons and Properties are guaranteed by the commanding Officer, and that they will ufe every Influence in their Power to induce the People of the Country at large to return to their Allegiance alfo. Thefe Terms we hope Captain M'Manus will be able to procure.

Signed, by Order of the Inhabitants of the
Town of Wexford,

MATTHEW KEUGHE.

ANSWER.

Enniscorthy, June 22, 1798.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Lake cannot attend to

ary Terms offered by Retdis in Arus again their

Sovereig

Sovereign. While they continue fo, he muft ufe the Force entrusted to him with the utmost Energy for their Destruction.

To the deluded Multitude he promifes Pardon, on their delivering into his Hands their Leaders, furrendering their Arms, and returning with Sincerity to their Allegiance.

(Signed)

To the Inbabitants of Wexford.

G. LAKE.

BULLETIN

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE 01 JUNE 26th, 1798.

Whitehall, June 26, 1798.

A DISPATCH, of which the following is a Copy.

has been received from His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by his Grace the Duke of Portland, His Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.

I

MY LORD,

Dublin Caffle, June 21, 1798. HAVE the Honor to acquaint your Grace, that Brigadier-General Dunn has reported from Monafterevan, that on the 19th Inftant he had fent a ftrong Patrole, under the Command of Captain Pack, of the 5th Dragoon Guards, towards Profperous, from Rathangan, and that Captain Pack, having fallen in wi h a Hundred of the Rebels, well mounted and appointed, he inftantly attacked and defeated them, taking Eight Horfes, and killing from Twenty to Thirty Men.

Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart, of the 5th Dragoons, having been detached to Profperous on the Evening of the 19th Inftant, found a Body of Rehels posted on a Hill on the Left of the Town, which fled into the neigbouring Bog on his Approach: His advanced

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Guard

Guard having been fired upon, as he approached, from the Town, he brought Two Curricle Guns to bear upon it, and fet Fire to Part of the Town. Much Cattle was left behind by the Rebels, which they had pinn'd up near the Mefs Room of the Barracks, together with many Pikes and Drums. Eight of the Rebels were killed.

Yesterday Morning a Detachment from Mount Kennedy, under Command of Lieutenant M'Lann, of the Reay Fencibles, and Lieutenant Gore, of the Mount Kennedy Cavalry, attacked a Body of near 300 Rebels near Ballinaruth. The Fire commenced from the Rebels, who were pofted behind a Hedge on the Top of a commanding Hill. After an Engagement of about Twenty Minutes, they gave Way in every Quarter, leaving zo dead behind them.

It appears by Letters from Cork, that an Engagement has taken place between a Detachment of the Caithness Fencibles, affifted by a Party of the Weftmeath Militia, and a confiderable Body of Rebels. The latter were defeated with the Lofs of above 100 Men. His Majesty's Troops appear to have fuffered but little in the Action.

The North Remains quiet.

I have the Honor to be, &c.

His Grace the Duke of Portland,

&c. &c. &c.

CORNWALLIS.

Parliament-Street, June 26, 1798. DISPATCH, of which the following is a Copy, A has been received by

has been received by the Right Honorable Henry Dundas, One of His Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Brigadier-General the Honorable Thomas Maitland, commanding His Majefty's Forces in the Ifland of St. Domingo; dated on board His Majesty's Ship Thunderer, off Mole St. Nicolas, the 10th of May 1798. I

SIR,

SIR,

:

EMBRACE the very first Opportunity of informing you, that on the 22d of laft Month I came to the Refolution of immediately evacuating the Towns of Port-au Prince and St. Marc's, with their Dependencies, together with the Parish of Arcahaye and it is now with great Pleasure I have the Honor of acquainting you, that this Measure has been carried into complete Effect without the fmalleft Lofs of any Kind, and in a Manner, I flatter myfelf, to give perfect Satisfaction, as far as, under the Circumstances, it was poffible, to all the French Inhabitants and Planters, whether thefe chose to follow the Fortune of His Majelly's Arms, or to remain in the Part of the Colony about to be evacuated.

In confidering the Modes of effecting this very difficult but important Object, there seemed to me but Two in any Degree practicable; the one, to withdraw the fmall British Force and fuch of the Colonial Troops as it was immediately poffible to induce to go with us, in a precipitate Manner, after blowing up the Forts; the other to ftate fairly my Determination, and, acting as Events occurred, to endeavour in a deliberate Way to withdraw the whole of our Stores and Force, and at the fame Time to attempt to obtain fome Terms for the numerous Inhabitants, who, either from Neceffity of Choice, wifhed to remain.

The First of thefe Measures feemed to me (how. ever fafe to the British) to be fo perfectly contrary to the Spirit of Generofity and Liberality which has ever actuated the British Nation, and fo certain of being attended with immediate and fhocking Scenes of Bloodshed among the Inhabitants, whofe natural Impetuofity of Character would be encreased by contending Paffions, deluded Hopes, and different Interefts, that I determined at once to fet it afide; and I begun, the 23d Ultimo, in confequence of adopting

the